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Based on scores of interviews with the artist's relatives, friends, lovers, producers, accompanists, managers, and fans, this brilliant biography reveals a man of many layers and contradictions. Following the journey of a musician who left his family's poor cotton farm at age eight carrying only a guitar, the book chronicles his life on the open road playing blues music and doing odd jobs. It debunks the myths surrounding his meetings with Blind Lemon...
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Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the history of the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his tragic death at age 27. This single notion can be recited by everyone who has ever heard of him, but the actual story of his life remains unknown save for a few inaccurate anecdotes. Up Jumped the Devil is the result of over 50 years of research. Gayle Dean...
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For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused. But few knew or understood Jeff Healey - a national icon and one of the world's best blues guitarists - better. Funny and loyal, with a luminous mind and...
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Anyone who knows R. Crumb's work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early to- mid-1980s. Now they are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-track CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb himself (featuring original recordings by Charley Patton,...
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The music business doesn't come with a manual, so Andrew Blaze Thomas wrote one! With over 20 years of experience as a professional drummer, Blaze has established rules for working musicians that illustrates how to acquire and maintain consistent work. You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It, explains how to negotiate salary, network with musicians, prepare for tours and much more. Blaze includes stories from the road that will entertain Blues fans...
2746) A New Day Yesterday
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Progressive rock, a genre formed out of a creative surge in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies, originated and flowered most spectacularly in the UK. Made by young musicians for a young audience, prog music looked towards new horizons by synthesising rock, jazz, folk, classical and other styles.
While prog has always divided critical opinion, in its heyday it had a large and devoted fanbase, and the era's biggest acts from Pink Floyd to...
2747) Mandolin Songbook - 12 Ladies Blues Songs - Billie Holiday, Berta Hill, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey
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Songbook with 12 Ladies Blues Songs - simply notated for the Mandolin.Twelve blues songs, composed and/or performed by four of the most legendary blues ladies: Billie Holiday, Berta "Chippie" Hill, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.The songs are notated in tablature and classical notation. The sounds of the songs are available online in a sound player with adjustable playback speed.Videos explain how to read music, web address and access data in the book.For...
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Songbook with 12 Ladies Blues Songs - simply notated for the chromatic Harmonica.Twelve blues songs, composed and/or performed by four of the most legendary blues ladies: Billie Holiday, Berta "Chippie" Hill, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.The tones of the melodies were prepared with simple symbols, the rhythm of the tones is given by the classical music notation.The sounds of the songs are available online in a sound player with adjustable playback speed.Videos...
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Gary Moore delighted entire generations with his passionate guitar playing, from the driving rock of Thin Lizzy in the 1970s to his explorations in subsequent decades of jazz fusion, heavy metal, hard rock, blues rock, and more. Throughout that time, he could be seen on the world's biggest stages, yet the real Gary Moore was always hidden in plain sight, giving little away. Now, however, through extensive and revealing interviews with family members,...
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Songbook with 12 Ladies Blues Songs - simply notated for the Soprano or Tenor Recorder with baroque fingering.Twelve blues songs, composed and/or performed by four of the most legendary blues ladies: Billie Holiday, Berta "Chippie" Hill, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.Each tone of the melodie is shown with fingering images for the recorder, these are placed under the classical music notation.The sounds of the songs are available online in a sound player...
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Songbook with 12 arrangements of Ladies Blues Songs for the Ukulele.Twelve blues songs, composed and/or performed by four of the most legendary blues ladies: Billie Holiday, Berta "Chippie" Hill, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.All songs are notated with tabs for fingerpicking with the Ukulele, the arrangements are easy to moderately difficult - for slightly advanced and advanced fans of the Ukulele.The recordings of the songs are available online in an...
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Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody...
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A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues to create Southern soul music. Through rare interviews and with unique insight, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the songs that...
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Named one of the world's great blues-rock guitarists by Rolling Stone, Mike Bloomfield remains beloved by fans forty years after his untimely death. Taking readers backstage, onstage, and into the recording studio with this legendary virtuoso, David Dann tells the riveting stories behind Bloomfield's work in the seminal Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the mesmerizing Electric Flag, as well as on the Super Session album with Al Kooper and Stephen Stills,...
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This biography of the iconic blues musician features interviews with family members, fellow musicians, and those who knew his best.
Born on a cotton plantation in 1925, Riley B. King would grow up to be one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, being crowned "The King of the Blues." Never wavering from his vocation, King gathered other musicians together and melded them into the unique blues sound that would become his signature. In...
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A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records.
Founded in 1960 by Chris Strachwitz, the one-man operation Arhoolie Records eventually produced more than four hundred albums during more than forty years in operation, exploring the far corners of American vernacular music-blues, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, hillbilly, Texas-Mexican...
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The blues guitar book that gives you everything you need to know to play smokin' blues guitar. Packed full of blues guitar licks and solos, essential blues guitar techniques, scales and chords, and with video lessons, backing tracks and audio demo tracks included, Blues Soloing for Guitar, Volume 1 is the perfect blues guitar book for beginners to intermediate level blues guitar players.
A complete blues guitar method book for beginners and intermediate...
2758) Monti Alto
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10 young men, teenagers really, leave their home in Africa to search for a better life in Europe.
They encounter many obstacles before they reach the Mediterranean coast, and survive a harrowing journey in a small boat,
Finally, they wash up on the Italian coast with no money or papers.
A new chapter starts with more challenges and hardships but hope as well.
Good fortune plays a part in meeting supportive people.
A village, music and friendships...
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From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture.
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed,...
2760) Blowin' Like Hell
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From the ghetto clubs of South-Central Los Angeles to International fame, William Clarke will go down as one of the greatest and most innovative blues harmonica players of all time. Clarke's life was marked with much adversity and many challenges. From a tough upbringing to the throes of alcoholism, Clarke persevered through determination and hard work to become a brilliant soulful player, vocalist, songwriter, entertainer and producer. He left behind...
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